Education Quotes

"School is important, but education is key."

- Kendrick Lamar

"Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book."

- Malala Yousafzai

"When my father died we did not have the funds to keep all three of us in school. The tuition is very expensive. My sisters are still in school and I am here to find work so they can stay there. Without a formal education there is no future for girls in Kathmandu. I would like to go back to school myself, but it is unlikely I will be able to. It is more important that my sisters attend school than it is for me."

- Sun-jo

"A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools."

- Thomas Jefferson

""Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.""

- Nelson Mandela

"If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think what you do matters very much."

- Jackie Kennedy

"A child’s first teacher is its mother."

- Peng Liyuan

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

- Pablo Picasso

"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice."

- Peggy O’Mara

"Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded."

- Jess Lair

"If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs."

- Nicolette Sowder

"Do not educate children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so when they grow up, they will know the value of things, not the price."

- Victor Hugo

"The greatest gifts we can give our children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

- Maria Montessori

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."

- Fred Rogers

"Children learn more from what you are than what you teach."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"We cannot teach children the importance of honesty simply by being honest with them; we must also be honest about them."

- Adam Grant

"Listening to children is the most basic way to respect their rights."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"Children do not care how much you know until they know how much you care."

- Teddy Roosevelt

"I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great."

- Steve Jobs

"If you want to know you ask a question. There’s no such thing as a dumb question, it’s dumb if you don’t ask it."

- Katherine Johnson

"I loved going through those books and learning, especially from others who'd made significant contributions in their field."

- Katherine Johnson

"Always be curious and never stop learning. The more knowledge you acquire, the more empowered you become."

- Katherine Johnson

"I had a very, very interesting childhood, but, oh my, education was the primary focus in our family."

- Katherine Johnson

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

- Plutarch

"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."

- Christine Gregoire

"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

- Allan Bloom

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

- Kofi Annan

"Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life."

- Brad Henry

"Your teachings are my treasures."